Selection Process
Sock and Buskin has an open meeting every week where, along with other theatre-production duties, potential plays for the following season are discussed.
Each week, six works are selected to be read. The board members are divided into two groups, the socks and the buskins, each of which is responsible for reading three of the six pieces. After a work is summarized, it is discussed on several grounds including but not limited to timeliness, interest, student opportunities, and producibility. After a play has been sufficiently discussed, a vote is taken on whether or not a play should be "kept" for further consideration or struck for the year. All members of the Sock and Buskin board (except for the chairperson) are required to vote or abstain.
As the academic year comes to a close, all the "kept" plays are discussed in a major decision meeting, at which the next season is finalized.
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